You guys are getting an extra long post today because it’s going to have to hold you over an extra week. I’m on vacation next week at a magical place with no Internet connections! Whoo hoo! The blog will return at its regularly scheduled time on June 14.
So my mind may be slowing, but my body is speeding up! I ran the Portsmouth Red Hook/Runner’s Alley 5k last Sunday, and I kicked butt! About four and a half years ago, Adam and I ran a 10k together. I thought I did awesome then! Well, now that I’m practically 38, I broke my [...]
We’re now entering that phase that’s so wonderful when Doodles’s communication is getting to the point where he can really express himself and tell stories and let us know what’s going on in his world. It was really exciting for me the day I walked into his day care and he said, “Come see the [...]
Doodles is now alternately fascinated by and willing to ignore, um, bodily waste. It’s a charming phase he’s going through. I’m trying to parlay it into some potty training, but to no avail. Me: Doodles, you pooped. Time to change your diaper.Doodles: I don’t want my diaper changed.Me: Too bad. You stink.Doodles: No, no, no! [...]
I often go running early in the morning with other moms. We meet at 6:15 and usually the whole house is up well before then. But there are those very rare days where I’m the first one up. Last Friday was one of those days. Sweetie Pie had woken up at 5:30 so I nursed [...]
Am I nuts for saying I’ll meet another blogger? Not just another blogger, but her entire clan? What if her kids don’t like my kids? What if my kids don’t like her kids? What if I don’t like her? What if we have nothing to say to each other in real life? Her blog is [...]
When I lived in Seattle, I was addicted to this cable access show called Kurt Cobain Was Murdered. I was hooked on the way the guy would say, “The WIDOW Cobain.” It was all conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy. I’m not really a conspiracy kind of person. At least… I wasn’t. Now, well, now I see conspiracies [...]
I am popular. Oh, am I popular. I have been granted most-favored nation status by the one and only Doodles. Doodles likes me… and only me. The most common refrain heard these days, next to “Nowwwww!” is “Mommy do it!” Adam always did Doodles’s night-time routine, but now it’s “Mommy tuck me in!” Adam takes [...]
Sweetie Pie and I have one day a week that’s just the two of us. Doodles is in day care three days a week and Pie just two so that I can give her just a smidgen of the alone time that Doodles had in my never-ending quest to alleviate the guilt I feel about [...]
Want to know why I’m so, um, quirky? Meet my mother. Poor Sweetie Pie. She doesn’t know yet what’s gonna hit her (its more domininant in females; I think Doodles is safe).